The Billings Gazette, 24 May 2013 – As a former Billings resident, I want to offer another perspective to the May 12 article titled "Federal crackdown busts medical-marijuana industry." The story details the March 2011 raids on businesses in plain sight and says the resulting prosecutions were "widely seen as a success and possibly a model for others." The author failed to account for some things in his "final scorecard" of 33 convictions. Most importantly, a death toll is omitted. Richard Flor was the state’s first registered caregiver and the first defendant to be sentenced. An aging Vietnam veteran, Flor’s family warned the judge that he would not survive prison. Flor died four months into his five-year sentence. His widow, Sherry, is serving a two-year prison sentence for working as a bookkeeper.
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